Joomla! Magazine

Our April issue has something in store for every Joomla user, from content manager to code poet and from beginner to developer. Like every month, our awesome volunteer authors happily share their knowledge with you, our readers. As you may know,...

With Joomla 6.1, a small but powerful enhancement was added to the TinyMCE editor: dedicated buttons for inserting, editing and removing the HTML <abbr> element.

In Joomla 6.1, custom fields just got significantly more flexible. Until now, the Media custom field type only let you select images but thanks to a core enhancement in Joomla 6.1, you now have dedicated field types for audio, video, and documents in addition to images. (github)

"Hello Rachel… I think we have a problem… Google is listing the wrong pages."
Sadly I’d heard it before.
And sure enough, when I took a look at the site I was right. The client had been busy renaming blog articles, changing menu items all for better SEO rankings. The idea was right, but nobody had told Google.

With Joomla 6.1 now available, attention turns to what comes next. Joomla 6.2 is scheduled for release on 13 October 2026, and at the helm are two release managers who bring very different backgrounds to the role. This month we meet Charvi Mehra, whose journey into Joomla began not through code but through a university semester project in Delhi.

Open source does not work by accident. It works because people show up. We often describe that effort as "giving back". It’s a useful idea, but it may also be limiting how we think about contribution.